From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime

Criminal Careers, Justice Policy, and Prevention

Edited by Rolf Loeber and David P. Farrington

This volume focuses exclusively on the transition from juvenile to adult crime and argues for special legal provisions for offenders aged 18-24

From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime

Criminal Careers, Justice Policy, and Prevention

Edited by Rolf Loeber and David P. Farrington

Description

What makes a juvenile delinquent develop into an adult criminal? What defines-cognitively, developmentally, legally-the transition from juvenile to adult and what determines whether patterns of criminal behavior persist? In most US states and Western nations, legal adulthood begins at age 18. This volume focuses on the period surrounding that abrupt transition (roughly ages 15-29) and addresses what happens to offending careers during it.

Edited by two leading authorities in the fields of psychology and criminology, Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime examines why the period of transition is important and how it can be better understood and addressed both inside and outside of the justice system. Bringing together over thirty leading
scholars from multiple disciplines in both North America and Europe, this volume asks critical questions about criminal careers and causation, and whether current legal definitions of adulthood accurately reflect actual maturation and development. The volume also addresses the current efficacy of the justice system in addressing juvenile crime and recidivism, why and how juveniles ought to be treated differently from adults, if special legal provisions should be established for young adults, and the effectiveness of crime prevention programs implemented during early childhood and adolescence.

With serious scholarly analysis and practical policy proposals, Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime addresses what can be done to ensure that today's juvenile delinquents
do not become tomorrow's adult criminals.

From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime

Criminal Careers, Justice Policy, and Prevention

Edited by Rolf Loeber and David P. Farrington

Author Information

Rolf Loeber, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Psychology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor of Juvenile Delinquency and Social Development at the Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is Co-director of the Life History Program.

David P. Farrington, O.B.E., is Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh.

Contributors:

Steve Aos, Ph.D., is the Director of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy, the non-partisan research unit of the Washington State Legislature.

Erik Bulten, Ph.D., psychologist, Head of Assessment, Research and Professional Development at the Pompe Foundation, Nijmegen, and senior researcher at the ACSW, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Andrea Donker, Ph.D. is professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Leiden, Netherlands, and is senior researcher at the University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht.

Finn-Aage Esbensen, Ph.D., is the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Youth Crime and Violence and also serves as Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

David
P. Farrington, Ph.D., O.B.E., is Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh.

Barry C. Feld, Ph.D., is Centennial Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School.

Peggy C. Giordano, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at Bowling Green State University.

Patrick Griffin, J.D., is a writer, researcher, legal analyst.

Laura Guy, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Mental Health Services Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), Worcester, MA.

J. David Hawkins, Ph.D., is Endowed
Professor of Prevention and Founding Director of the Social Development Research Group at the School of Social Work, University of Washington.

Machteld Hoeve, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor Forensic Child and Youth Care Sciences at the Research Institute Child Development and Education of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Robert Hoge, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Distinguished Research Professor, Carleton University.

James C. (Buddy) Howell, Ph.D., worked at the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in the U.S. Department of Justice for 21 years, mostly as Director of Research and Program Development.

Lila Kazemian, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the department of Sociology at the
John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Martin Killias, Ph.D., is professor of criminology and criminal law at the University of Zurich.

Mark W. Lipsey, Ph.D., is Director of the Peabody Research Institute and a Research Professor at Vanderbilt University.

Rolf Loeber, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Psychology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and Professor of Juvenile Delinquency and Social Development at the Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Ann Masten, Ph.D., is Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota.

Daniel P. Mears, Ph.D., is the Mark C. Stafford
Professor of Criminology at Florida State University's College of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Meghan E. Peel, M.Sc., is a doctoral candidate at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and a Research Associate at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

Alex R. Piquero, Ph.D., is Professor in the Program in Criminology in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, Adjunct Professor Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice, and Governance, Griffith University and Co-Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Santiago Redondo, Ph.D., is Professor of Criminology at the University of Barcelona (Spain).

Frederick P. Rivara,
M.D., M.P.H., is the holder of the Seattle Children's Guild Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics and adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington.

Richard Rosenfeld, Ph.D., is Curators Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.

Jerzy Sarnecki, Ph.D., is Professor of General Criminology at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Terence P. Thornberry, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland and the Principal Investigator of the Rochester Youth Development Study.

Patrick H. Tolan Ph.D., is
Director, Youth-Nex: The University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development and Professor in the Curry School of Education and Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences.

Christopher Uggen, Ph.D., is Distinguished McKnight Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.

Gina M. Vincent, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and Director of Translational Law and Psychiatry Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.

David L. Weisburd, Ph.D., is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University Law School, and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and
Society, and Director of the Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy at George Mason University.

Brandon C. Welsh, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

Helene R. White, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Center of Alcohol Studies and Sociology Department at Rutgers - the State University of New Jersey.